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My Great Grandfather George Arthur East joined the Royal Navy in 1914 when he was 14 years old (having lied about his age!). The story I have been told is that he was the first ever able bodied seaman to dive using a diving belt. He died some years ago and so did his wife. I cannot find any further information such as what ship he was on etc. I would love to find out anything at all and a photo would be good because I'm sure it would have been recorded at the time.
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My Granda's older brother Thomas Blyth is in this photo, unfortunately we do not know which young man he is. He was killed at the end of WW1. If anyone can help me out with this it would be much appreciated. Thank-you.
June.
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Does anyone know of a source of finding the crew names of German
aircraft shot down or crashing in this country during WW1? In particular, a
Gotha force-landed near Sturry in Kent on 6/7 December 1917, the crew
injured but surviving. One crew member was believed to be Ltn der Reserve
Franz Schulte, who ended up in a PoW Camp at Skipton and finally succumbed
to the influenza epidemic of 1918. It would be useful to have an answer to
the first sentence of this message, if not all of it. Thanks!
Peter Wright.
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This is a photograph of my grand-father who was a canadian soldier in the first world war.
He was unfortunately killed somewhere in France before April 1917. We unfortunately do not know his last name or the regiment that he served with. We believe he was in the Canadian calvery regiment? The great pity with the photograph is that my Grandfather's cap badge insignia which would have identified his Regiment is not visible and his collar insignia is the (WW1) "standard" Canadian Maple Leaf design. Looking at his upper arm insignia his rank was Corporal and I believe that the crossed swords above his Corporal's chevrons are most probably for a qualified swordsman.
If anybody could identify this photograph or help us in any way to identify the regiment or any other information that they can offer concering it, we would be extremley grateful.
Peter Ramsay
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